The Secretary of the Interior, Adán Augusto López Hernández, sent the Senate yesterday, November 16, the names of whom President Andrés Manuel López Obrador proposes to replace Minister Fernando Franco in the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, who will leave office next December 12.
The three nominees are Bernardo Bátiz Vázquez, Verónica de Gyvés Zárate and Loretta Ortiz Ahlf. It is the second time that AMLO has proposed them for the position.
One of them will take the place of Franco, who came to the SCJN 15 years ago after being proposed by then-President Vicente Fox.
Who are they?
Bátiz has dedicated 56 of his 85 years to politics. In 1965 he joined the PAN and for that party he became a federal deputy three times, in 1970, 192 and 1988.
In 1992 he left the PAN for the PRD and as a PRD candidate he was a candidate for senator in 1994 and three years later he reached the Chamber of Deputies for the fourth time.
In 2000, AMLO appointed him Attorney General of the DF, a position he held until December 2006. In 2009 he was a candidate for delegational chief in Benito Juárez.
In 2014 he joined Morena and in 2016, he was a deputy of the Constituent Assembly of Mexico City.
Due to his age, it is difficult for him to be selected by senators to occupy a position that he will hardly hold until 2036.
The competition will be between women and it is logical that one of them succeeds Franco so that the number of women increases from three to four, still very underrepresented in the highest court of the country.
De Gyvés, 60, is a counselor of the Federal Judiciary, appointed for the 2019-2024 period. Law degree from UNAM; He obtained a Master’s degree in Criminal Law, Constitution and Rights from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the UAM and the Institute of Judicial Studies of the Superior Court of Justice of the DF (TSJDF). He also obtained a Master’s degree in Procedural Law from the National Institute for Higher Studies in Criminal Law.
In the TSJDF she was a public defender and Public Ministry attached to the Peace and Criminal Courts, Secretary of Agreements and judge by the Ministry of Law of the Criminal Court 63; Criminal judge 59, magistrate by the Ministry of Law and head of the First Criminal Chamber.
Ortiz, 66, is also a counselor of the Federal Judiciary, appointed for the 2019-2024 period. She has a degree in Law from the Escuela Libre de Derecho, a master’s degree in Human Rights from the Ibero-American University and a doctorate in Human Rights and European Community Law from the National Distance Education University of Spain. She has been a teacher at La Libre and at Ibero she was director of the Law department from 1998 to 2007.
She was the founder of Morena and from 2012 to 2015 a multi-member deputy.
In 2018 AMLO appointed her coordinator of the organized peacemaking forums and in December of that year she was proposed for the first time to be a minister of the SCJN and resigned from Morena so as not to be a partisan candidate.
Who will be selected by the senators? The one that has developed within the Judiciary or the one that has dedicated years to teaching? The one who would be 75 years old at the end of her term or the one who would be 81? The graduate of the public university or the one who studied in private institutions? Both are close to Andrés Manuel.
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